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| | Review: Flatterland. Like Flatland. Only More So. |
 | | In FLATTERLAND's index, the man is listed in the E's under Erwinschrödinger; whereas his famous cat (who assumes different forms depending upon whether he is being observed or not) is listed in the S's under Schrödinger's Cat. | | | FLATTERLAND, by Ian Stewart, is a modern sequel to FLATLAND, by Edwin A. Abbott, published over a century earlier, and discussed recently in Stephen Hawking's popular book, A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME. | | | FLATTERLAND carries us into the world of modern physical concepts, making them understandable to the generally educated reader. |
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| | frontwheeldrive.com: reviews |
| | Early chapters covering "traditional" modern mathematical interests such as multidimensional systems, fractals, and topology were the most interesting, while the later portions of the book drift away toward more physical concerns like quantum mechanics, relativity, and cosmology. | | | He is the author or co-author of more than sixty titles, his latest being The Annotated Flatland and a modern day sequel titled Flatterland. | | | Once you get over some of the silly dialog and skimpy plot, Flatterland is a rather interesting and entertaining book. |
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| | Its premise is that one hundred years after the events described above another traveler arrives and whisks away another flatlander, this time a young woman, to see and learn about a wide variety of concepts in geometry and then physics. | | | She will do this by using a new piece of knowledge, gained in the last pages of the book. | | | In Flatterland, Victoria's travels start out, naturally enough, from her own family circle. |
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| | frontwheeldrive.com: ian stewart interview |
| | Did work on Flatterland influence the direction of your research for the commentary in Flatterland's companion volume, The Annotated Flatland? | | | I would never have thought of writing The Annotated Flatland If I hadn't written Flatterland. | | | In fact, I didn't think of writing the annotated version: it was the idea of my editor at Perseus Books, Amanda Cook. |
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| | Flatterland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Flatterland is a 2001 book by mathematician and science popularizer Ian Stewart about non-Euclidean geometry. | | | It was written as a sequel to Flatland, an 1884 novel that discussed different dimensions. | | | Ian Stewart often includes puns and topical references in his popular writing, and "Flatterland" is no exception. |
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| | The "Mathiverse" (as Vikki's guide calls it) however, has progressed by leaps and bounds in the 117 years between Flatland and Flatterland, and a simple sphere is far too mundane for the journey through the bizarre realms to which Vikki travels in Flatterland. | | | What then, does Ian Stewart come up with for Vikki's guide? | | | Flatterland tells the story of A. Square's great-great-granddaughter, Victoria Line, a modern young Flatlander living in a society which has progressed somewhat since great-great-granddad's time, but not enough for young Vikki, who yearns for liberation from the sexist views of her father and the other polygons. |
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| | Flatterland Text - Physics Forums Library |
| | Stewart writes with engrossing humor and intense interest in each different point of VUE (read the book, and you'll know what I mean). | | | 01-31-2005, 03:36 PM Anyone who liked "Flatland", will love "Flatterland". | | | Physics Help and Math Help - Physics Forums > Science Education > Academic and Career Guidance > Science Book Reviews > Flatterland |
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| | Book Review: Flatterland by Ian Stewart |
| | Flatland was written not only to popularise discussion about the fourth dimension but also as a social commentary on the rigid divisions in Victorian society and the low status accorded to women at that time. | | | Flatterland is written in a whimsical 'chatty' style that some may find irritating. | | | In Flatterland Victoria discovers a copy of Flatland and so reads about the 'disgrace' brought to her family by Albert and his ridiculous story. |
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| | Flatterland elytra.net |
| | Overall, I highly recommend Flatterland as one of the best popular math/science books I've read. | | | While Stewart makes some attempt to modernize the social commentary that permeates the original Flatland, his use of puns is what really is entertaining. | | | "Flatterland - like flatland only more so", by Ian Stewart is an updated sequel to Edwin A. Abbott's classic Flatland - A romance of many dimensions" (available online). |
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| | Flatterland - Book review - Does God Exist? - MarApr04 |
| | Flatterland - Book review - Does God Exist? | | | It is useful, however, in understanding the foolishness of maintaining that all we can know is what we perceive through our senses, and also in understanding how a being in a higher dimension can function in a lower one. | | | For many years, we have told the story of Flatland written in 1884 by Edwin Abbott. |
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| | Neil Fein's Blog: Upward, not Northward |
| | Further literature is also cited, including, irritatingly, the author's own Flatterland -- citations that appear with increasing frequency as the volume progresses. | | | For the most part, this volume is a lively read. | | | Stewart's work Flatterland, where the heroine journeys into worlds beyond ken of even the Sphere that so elucidated A. Square. |
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| | If the idea of recreational mathematics doesn’t scare you off, then prepare yourself for a sometimes challenging, but very fun and rewarding read in Ian Stewart’s latest book, Flatterland. | | | Surprisingly, for a book that tackles some quite difficult mathematical theories, Flatterland is not a hard read. | | | McCann captures Nureyev's life as if he were trying to make the reader experience it rather than reading about it. |
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| | Poor Ian Stewart - once he caught the Flatland bug while writing Flatterland, he couldn't stop himself. | | | The story moves quickly and is a wide-ranging overview of different geometries and even questions like "what the heck is a geometry anyway?", as well as diving into notions like space-time, quantum mechanics, etc. Rather than a gentle analogy or investigation by the characters, a helpful guide gives lessons about each new facet of mathematics. | | | Sphereland feels more like a timeless sequel to Flatland, but having had time to ponder, I think Flatterland is the true contemporary follow-on; it addresses pertinent questions now and using concepts familiar to the current audience. |
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| | Also Available: The Annotated Flatland --- the first ever annotated edition of Edwin A. Abbott's classic Flatland, with material on the history, science, mathematics, philosophy, and religion of the Fourth Dimension in Victorian times, together with biographical information on Adwin A. Abbott and Charles Howard Hinton. | | | The social commentary is also brought up to date, though less obtrusively. | | | But if you want to have fun with the latest concepts of space, time, and geometry, Flatterland is the place to go. |
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| | The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today |
| | Flatterlands Like Flat Land, Only More So, By Ian Stewart, Macmillan Publishers Ltd, 2001, 301 + xi pages | | | In 1884, Edwin A. Abbott combined mathematics and philosophy in the classic tale Flatland, in which he made fun of Victorian England's stiff society while introducing the concept of life in four dimensions. | | | The heroine of the present work is Victoria Line (in Flatterland males are Squares and Females are Lines, with the males bearing the names of the great squares of London such as Grosvenor Square and the females bearing the names of subway lines, such as Victoria Line). |
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| | Cornell Math - Textbook List for Sprng 2002 |
| | required: Stewart, Ian, Flatterland: Like Flat Land Only More So, Perseus Publishing, 2001 (ISBN: 0-7382-0442-0). | | | Math 103 Lec 02 and Lec 03: Mathematical Explorations: Flatland & Flatterland |
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| | Salon.com Books Once upon a dimension |
| | Like Abbott, Stewart is the author of about 60 books, and sometimes 'Flatterland' reads as though he were already thinking about the next one: It gradually starts to seem a bit willy-nilly and half-cooked." | | | It's as though he wanted to make 'Flatterland' a comprehensive book about all the strange implications of modern mathematics and physics -- while at the same time needed to step up his writing pace as he went on. | | | After some great chapters on alternate-shaped universes and curved space-time and such, he covers the contemporary stuff pretty broadly -- superstring theory, supersymmetry. |
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| | I left with another Stephenson book, The Diamond Age, and Flatterland, Ian Stewart's sequel to the classic Flatland. | | | To the surprise of the men, and the quiet satisfaction of the women, the lineal ladies carried out what had previously been men's jobs with aplomb. | | | At any rate, I went back to the larger county library, returned Cryptonomicon and picked a couple of new books to consume. |
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| | Narrative Plus Math Equals Sales - 4/16/2001 - Publishers Weekly |
| | Stewart, a mathematician at Warwick University in England (and author of more than 60 books, including Does God Play Dice? | | | More than 100 years after publication, Flatland has inspired writers to attempt sequels to Abbott's satirical story. | | | Perseus senior editor Amanda Cook has such high hopes for Flatterland that she's already signed Stewart for another book. |
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| | ASP: Books of Note Archives |
| | This annotated edition by Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick and author of Flatterland, explains many Victorian references and weaves in little known biographical information about Abbott and his intellectual circle and traces the scientific evolution of geometric forms and dimensions. | | | But beneath the surface, it’s also a biting satire of Victorian values. | | | Geoffrey Burbidge, Allan Sandage and Frank Shu, Eds. |
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| | Looking for Flatterland, Lycos Shopping has it! |
| | Home > Books & Magazines > Mathematics Books > Flatterland | | | Subtitle: Like Flatland, Only More So Released: 2002, Format: Paperback | | | Shopping for the best buy on Flatterland - Read product reviews, compare prices and store ratings at Lycos. |
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| | Talk:Flatterland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | I have a copy of Abbot's Flatland, but not of Flatterland. | | | Well, I'm willing to have a go - but first I'll need to buy/borrow a copy of the book! | | | I read it a few years back and, like you, enjoyed it very much. |
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| | FLATTERLAND by STEWART - Used Books At Biblio |
| | FLATTERLAND by STEWART - Used Books At Biblio | | | Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So (Qty: 3) | | | Offered by Thunder Books (New Jersey, United States) |
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| | Flatterland is a quick, ingenious overview of new and bewildering concepts in mathematics. | | | If I had to do it again, I'd read Flatterland one chapter at a time, taking breaks to digest the material and maybe rereading each chapter as I went. | | | But even if you read it like a novel and don't retain details of any concepts, it's an enjoyable summary of what's new and incomprehensible in the field of math. |
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| | The content of Flatterland is therefore similar to the content of other mathematical surveys for the lay reader. | | | We have some fractals, some chaos, non-Euclidian geometries, and more strangely, a bit of quantum mechanics (the superimposition of states and Schroedinger's cat), relativity, cosmology and string theory. |
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| | Therein lie both his powers and his deficiencies. | | | The primary rationale for the existence of Flatterland is the introduction and elucidation of complicated ideas and theories and history. | | | If SF writers really were obsessive academic experts, all SF would end up sounding like Stewart's sometimes dry but overall engaging book. |
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| | Read This: Flatterland |
| | Readers who have enjoyed other works by Ian Stewart will delight in his play with words and concepts." In the spirit of Tom Lehrer's record jacket notes, I had added that if anyone did not appreciate the author's earlier puns and wordplays, he or she would likely not enjoy this book. | | | But I ended up by writing a recommendation for the back cover that fairly accurately but slightly incompletely registers my evaluation: "Flatterland challenges readers to go beyond Flatland and deal with phenomena, not just in dimensions higher than four, but in many exotic geometric realms that stretch our imagination and powers of visualization. |
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| | Math Digest |
| | Review of Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So, by Ian Stewart. | | | Ian Stewart may be the world's most famous mathematics popularizer writing in English---next to, of course, the legendary Martin Gardner, who here reviews Stewart's latest book Flatterland. | | | In this brief review, Gardner says that Flatterland "is essentially a work about mathematics cleverly disguised as a fantasy sequel to Edwin Abbott's classic Flatland. |
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| | Dymocks Booksellers |
| | "Flatterland" explores our present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time and matter, as well as modern geometries and their applications. | | | The journey begins when Victoria Line comes upon her great-great-grandfather A. Square's diary, hidden in the attic. | | | Please note that prices, products and availability on Dymocks Online may differ from Dymocks stores. |
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| | FLATTERLAND by Stewart, Ian, STEWART, IAN (PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF WARWIC |
| | FLATTERLAND by Stewart, Ian, STEWART, IAN (PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF WARWIC | | | Through Victoria's travels we meet various characters and encounter different mathematical problems. | | | Use our email a friend feature to pass on the details of this title to friends and colleagues. |
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| | FLATTERLAND (in MARION) |
| | Flatterland : like Flatland only more so / Ian Stewart. | | | Please send comments, suggestions, or bug reports to webmaster@bccls.org |
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| | Proverbs for paranoids |
| | Project Gutenberg Literary works in the public domain | | | A Mote turned out to be an excellent hard science fiction novel that deals with man’s first contact with an intelligent alien race. | | | The latter part of Flatterland was much better, with nonorientable surfaces and the definitions and mechanics of multi-dimensional stuff. |
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| | Find in a Library: Flatterland : like Flatland only more so |
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| | Flatterland - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter |
| | This sequel to Edwin Abbott's FLATLAND (1884), written more than 115 years later, finds a descendent of Mr. | | | Flatterland - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter | | | Your use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the Smarter.com Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions |
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